Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, formerly O'Reilly & Associates, a technical book publishing company that evolved into a global pioneer in trends forecasting and technology advocacy. Throughout his career, he has played a crucial role in evangelizing numerous groundbreaking technologies, from the world wide web, the Perl programming language, Linux, open-source software, XML, to web services. Seeing the value in marketing technologies, rather than just books about them, O'Reilly helped capture and spread the knowledge of innovators by expanding O'Reilly Media's offerings, creating online publishing platforms, organizing conferences, and venturing into early-stage capital. O'Reilly has studied OPM38 and PEVC, Private Equity & Venture Capital, at Harvard Business School, and serves on the boards of renowned organizations such as Code for America, Maker Media, Safari Books Online, and Civis Analytics, among others. His specialties cover a broad range of fields, including book publishing, advocacy, grassroots marketing, writing and editing, conference organization, online publishing, and early-stage venture capital. By keeping an eye on the cutting edge, O'Reilly considers himself a changer of the future, on a mission to spread the knowledge and expertise of alpha geeks.